A number of top South African and international companies were presented
with awards for their exceptional physical asset management practices
at the annual Pragma Client Awards function on 9 June 2011 at the Lord
Charles Hotel in Somerset West.
The overall CEO Award was presented to Tetra Pak, a global packaging
company, for successfully implementing and launching On Key 5 in 178
countries globally. The CEO award acknowledges exceptional improvement
of asset management best practices and processes within a client’s
operation.
In the ACC@Client (client has an on-site Asset Care Centre) category,
the Gold award went to the City Of Cape Town Electricity Services
Electrical Support Services. Says Adriaan Scheeres, CEO of Pragma
Holdings: “It’s the second year in a row that the City of Cape Town wins
this award. We’d like to congratulate the team for this exceptional
achievement and recognise them as a responsible asset owner. The key
success factors contributing to their success is that, once again,
management was committed to improving the performance of their physical
assets. They diligently measured, communicated and followed up on their
asset management performance, created a pleasant working environment for
staff – which also contributes to employee morale, and managed the
project management process in a detailed and thorough fashion.”
The Silver award in this category was given to PFG Building Glass for
the commitment from management to improve their assets’ performance,
their dedication to manage the work planning and control process well,
as well as for their clean and tidy plant.
Aberdare Cables Long Street walked away with the Bronze award for their
commitment from management, their practical implementation of SAP EAMS
in a simple and effective manner, as well as the well managed technical
library and information process.
Closely competing in this category were Delmas Coal, Ekurhuleni
Metropolitan Municipality, Gold Fields South Deep, Johannesburg City
Parks and Nkomati Mines.
In the second category, ACC@Pragma (client has an Asset Care Centre
service delivered from a local Pragma office), Ceres Fruit Juices walked
away with top honours. They were in third place last year. Says
Scheeres: “We’d like to congratulate the team with their Gold award as
they really worked hard at it. We recognise Ceres Fruit Juices as a
responsible asset owner and honour their efforts and high levels in
physical asset management maturity for their Environmental Health and
Safety and Life Cycle Management as per the AMIP Excellence grid.”
They were followed by Silver award winners Meadow Feeds Pietermaritzburg
for their excellent top management involvement and drive, the planning
and scheduling done optimally using ACC@Pragma inputs and their
maintenance history which was used and analysed to implement
improvements.
Kromco received the Bronze award as their management and engineering
team is committed to a high level Asset Management. Says Scheeres: “They
acted on assessment feedback and implemented the improvement plan.
There was positive cooperation between departments at all levels and in
maintenance teams with the focus on ownership and accountability.”
Also considered for these positions were Continental Beverage
Bloemfontein, Imana Foods, Lancewood Holdings, Meadow Feeds PE, Meadow
Feeds Pietermaritzburg, Pegasus, Kromco, Rainbow Worcester, Tetrapak
Durban and Tiger Brands Sasolburg.
The third Category, ACC (Asset Care Centre) Client operated generated a
very tight competition. “Minopex Eland distinguished themselves from the
pack and were awarded Gold by applying the On Key reports, the fault
tree analysis and 5 whys, and improved the performance of their Larox
filter resulting in a saving of R400 000 once off and also R100 000.”
The Silver Award was presented to Minopex Volclay, which is a fairly new
On Key implementation – only since 2009. Says Scheeres: “Pragma
acknowledges how quickly their system data became accurate, the focussed
improvement effort from their team and the part they played in the
optimisation of ceramic anvil liners which run 1 month instead of 1
week, resulting in a replacement saving of R285 000? per month.”
Bronze was awarded to PPC De Hoek in this category. “Some of the key
success drivers at PPC De Hoek were the extent to which Physical Asset
Management is an integral part of PPC Business Management, the
availability and accessibility of PAM (Physical Asset Management) info
on the Intranet as well as the level of detail of information
management,” Scheeres concludes.
The top ten participants in this category were PPC PE, De Hoek, Jupiter,
Minopex Marikana, Eland and Volclay, the Medi-Clinics in Bloemfontein,
Hoogland and Potchefstoom and Sun International: Sun City.
